Umbrella-runner.



F. A. DILLINGHAM.

UMBRELLA RUNNER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6. 1915.

11. 43,549 Patented Q0t.16,1917.

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FREDERICK A. DILLINGHAM, F TROY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR T0 THE TROY GBIAGE SUN SLADE COMEANY,

0F TROY, OHIO, A CQRPOBATION 0E OHIO.

UMBRELLA-RUNNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 8, 1915. Serial No. 59,901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, FREDERICK A. DILL-' INGHAM, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of Troy, in the county of Miami and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Umbrella-Runners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to runners for umbrellas, that is to say, for those members slidably mounted on the umbrella rod which serve to retain the under ribs of the umbrella.

ln umbrella runners it is customary to secure the lower set of ribs permanently to the runner, as for example by soldering them in place over a retaining ring of some description. Runners have also been designed to receive the ribs removably, but these runners are usually of cumbersome and unsightly appearance, and usually have a corrugated outer edge which is liable to catch and tear the umbrella covering fabric.

lit is the object of this invention to provide a runner of very compact form, in which the ribs are easily mounted and dismounted, and one in which the extending edges are rounded so as not to catch on the umbrella cover. It is also an object to form a runner which is efi'ective and light and at the same time of simple and inexpensive structure, and finally it is the object to provide an adequate bearing surface for supporting the ribs when in operative position, as it is not desirable to take this strain on the retaining ring.

These eb ects l accomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

in the drawing,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the runner in place with the runner partly broken to show the structure thereof.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the blank for forming the ring retaining member.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the ring retaining member, made up.

Fig. 4 1s a side elevation thereof. I

1 is the umbrella rod on which the runner is to slide. A long metallic sleeve 2 is provided which slides on the rod, and this sleeve is split (not shown) at the upper portion and bent outwardly a short distance from the top edge to form a shoulder 3. On this shoulder is held the ring retaining member which'will now be described.

A blank of metal 4 cut to have a series of tabs 5 around its edge, is stamped out at the center to leave an aperture and the edges bent up to form a collar 6 around the central aperture. The tabs are bent up at 7 and then out and around the ring 8, so as to firmly hold this ring in a position outside of the bent up portions of the tabs.

The inner collar 6 is forced over the split held in place preferably by the expansion of the sleeve inside of the said collar. llnto the runner so formed the ribs 9 of the umbrella are set. These are bent at 10 and hooked over the ring. This is done by hooking the rib up under the ring, by inclining the rib to a position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The end of the hook will then slide in under the ring and will have plenty of room to swing when the runner is raised or lowered.

The h oaks cannot come out unless they are withdrawn in the same position that they are inserted, and because of the relative diameters oi the ring and the main portion of the ring retaining member, the hooks can be of fairly thick metal so as to be strong without making the ring retaining member large and cumbersome. The space between the ring and the edge of the main portion of the ring holder is obviously greater than if there were no outward bend of the tabs above mentioned in the mounting of the ring. The hooks on the ribs bear against the collar 6 when the umbrella is raised, and this relieves the ring from the duty of supporting the ribs, which is of great advantage in prolonging the lift of the runner.

Accordingly it is seen that the runner now described has the advantages of simplicity and compactness, which is the object in view and that it can be easily stamped out of a blank of metal. The ribs may be withdrawn without taking the runner apart, it being merely necessary to remove it from the umend of the sleeve heretofore mentioned, and v brella red, when each rib may be dismounted in the same manner that it is inserted in making up the runner.

Having thus described my invention, what 5 I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

'1. In an umbrella runner, an umbrella rod, a ring and a slidably mounted member on the umbrella rod, said member being slot- 10 ted to form a series of tabs With the tabs bent upwardly to leave an unslotted base i aee eee ed on said member so as to lie outside of the periphery of the vertical side Wall.

7 FREDERICK A. DILLINGHAM.

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